December 2009
73 posts
burialmix:
yo la tengo :: you can have it all
Beach House started a Tumblr →
yvynyl:
(via @sarahspy @hamsandwich)
Liars - Scissor
via gbabuts (via thumbswithhands)
Ear Farm Holiday Party Tonight With Great Bands!... →
The Ear Farm crew has put together a great show at Spike Hill tonight for their holiday party, featuring a few of our favorite local artists. We’re really looking forward to seeing…
The Ravonettes - The Christmas Song
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Flaming Lips - A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn’t...
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to...
Arcade Fire - No Winter for a Year
via letsbeglad
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - All I Want for Christmas
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Julian Casablancas - I Wish it was Christmas...
Scrambler Seequill Release New Album / Show... →
Whereas many bands seem to be concerned with taking something pretty-sounding and making it dissonant, Scrambler Seequill has an interesting way of taking dissonance and making it sound…
The Antlers: December 15, 2009 Bowery Ballroom -... →
Interpol's Paul Banks Talks "Orchestral" LP4
twentyfourbit:
When Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino spilled the beans recently about the band’s plans to release their fourth full-length album early next year, he claimed that they were plotting a return to the “sonic-defining tag” from their debut album, Turn On the Bright Lights. In a Q&A with BBC 6, however, frontman Paul Banks dropped some hints about their new “elegant, orchestral”...
Dirpy - YouTube to Mp3 Converter →
perpetua:
Hello there, useful application!
Dinosaur Feathers LP Presale + mp3/more →
2009 has been a year in which many new(er) bands have really come into their own in NYC/Brooklyn. Bands like pow wow!, Shark?, Pet Ghost Project, and Dinosaur Feathers have…
Sharon Van Etten: Big Love In Small Moments //... →
December 10, 2009 - The opening seconds of “Much More Than That,” by Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, are almost uncomfortable in their intimacy. Alone with her acoustic guitar, with only a few cooing oohs behind her, Van Etten opens by unleashing a vulnerable and loaded plea: “Please don’t take me lightly.” Though her insecurity never wanes, Van...
Karen O Snags Grammy Nod After Miley Cyrus...
twentyfourbit:
There I was thinking last year’s Thom Yorke dissing Miley and Kanye hubbub was a good— albeit pointless—time gone by, but now Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O has stolen that very Disney-ordained dressing room which Yorke refused to visit. In a post on his collaborative “We Love You So” blog, Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Lee forwarded an email from the soundtrack’s...
“Shark?’s version adds instruments, which simultaneously defeats the original’s...”
– JezebelMusic.com (via dogandponyshow)
“If this is MySpace’s idea of how to run a successful music tech company, they...”
– How To Kill Your Developer Community aka This Is What Happens When MySpace Buys You.
Make sure to read Lee’s entire rant. He created Twt.fm which was basically killed when MySpace ‘integrated’ Imeem yesterday. The same will probably happen to Blip.fm which for a big part relies on the Imeem API as...
Sonic Youth - “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out On...
Streaming will never stop downloading →
muxtape:
“Why would we voluntarily increase our reliance on expensive, scarce wireless bandwidth delivered by abusive thugs when we are awash in cheap, commodity storage that grows cheaper every day and which we can buy from hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of retailers?”
“Hard problems can’t be solved with technical denialism.”
“Christmas (Beat Happening Cover)” (Live at Bruar...
Apple's Lala purchase forecasts browser access to... →
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freealbum :: Fear! by Shark? →
dogandponyshow:
Yup. It’s free.
gimmetinnitus:
Earlier this Fall, I posted an mp3 from Quiet Color blogger turned rocker Kevin Diamond’s band Shark?. They sound like this:
Downloadable: Fear! (mp3)
While clicking around on bandcamp…
THE MUSIC SLUT PRESENTS: MATT’S TOP 20 LPS OF... →
And they are…
20. Fever Ray - Fever Ray 19. Morrissey - Years Of Refusal 18. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust 17. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead 16. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career 15. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 14. Japandroids - Post Nothing 13. The Answering Machine - Another City, Another Sorry 12. Chris Garneau - El Radio 11. Mew - No More Stories… 10. The Gossip - Music For Men...
Live This Week: December 7-13 /// mp3 Mix →
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Here are mp3s by some artists playing live this week:
“History Lessons” by Dinosaur Feathers (Monday) “I’m And Animal” by Shark? (Monday) “Call Me” by The Naked Hearts…
Merry Christmas Baby - Otis Redding
copycats:
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Of Montreal - Christmas isn’t Safe for Animals
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Apple Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Lala →
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